“I’m not sure that you can succeed as an architect if you don’t have a good dose of resilience,” says Adam Haddow, principal director at SJB Architects.
“Our job is to find something – within a brief, from a site, within the context – and exploit or refocus that to leverage experience and convince clients to win rewarding work. We need to shift people’s opinions or expectations about what it is they want, or what they think is necessary or important. This takes persistence and, I would contend, resilience.” This is against a backdrop of forces out of your control – and what a difference it makes when they are favourable. For Alec Tzannes, the 35 years or so of his studio, Tzannes, have been relatively stable. As its founding…
